Inspired by a recent negative personal reaction to a recent IDW comic and a chronic distaste for elves.

After years of Ponyville having uncontrollable weather and monsters routinely defecated on them by the public menace that is the Everfree Forest, Princess Twilight decides to flex her bureaucratic muscles and solve this problem, initiating a bold proposal to have the forest cut down, the monsters relocated, and the land developed for the benefit of pony kind.

Now naturally not everyone is in favor of this pro-development development, but Equestria is an absolute monarchy and Twilight's a monarch, so she should have it pretty easy. Unfortunately, Twilight's still kind of rubbish at being an absolute monarch, so maybe this won't be as easy as she thought....

Cover art by 10art1 https://derpibooru.org/tags/artist-colon-10art1